Teen Charged In Crash That Killed Passenger

GURNEE — A 16-year-old from Gurnee has been charged with reckless homicide in connection with a car crash last fall that killed his passenger, Gurnee police said.

A.G. Hancock, 17, of Gurnee died several weeks after the Oct. 7 collision.

The youth charged in the death, a junior at Warren Township High School in Gurnee, was charged last week as an adult, police said. He turned himself in to police Thursday, police said. According to police, the youth allegedly was speeding south on Milwaukee Avenue near Grand Avenue in his 1995 Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 when he crossed the centerline and struck a 1995 Ford Escort driven by a 25-year-old woman from Kenosha.

The woman was recently released from Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, hospital officials said. Gurnee Mayor Richard Welton is an uncle of Hancock, who was also a student at Warren Township High, officials said.